On November 27 the Toronto Young Professionals Affinity Group held a very successful networking mixer with several hundred attendees. A highlights video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6TbpinDhag. We decided to try out the new “Young Professionals” branding by making the event open to everyone, not just IEEE members. The turnout was staggering! We used the Eventbrite platform to […]

New to STEP? Want to learn more? Join us for a webinar discussing the Student Transition and Elevation Program (STEP) on 12 December at 10:00AM EDT (1500 UTC). This webinar highlights the elements of STEP and its benefits to graduating students. Please register to attend the webinar here: https://ieeemeetings.webex.com/ieeemeetings/j.php?ED=257349017&UID=499638237&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D

In March of 2013 the Santa Clara Valley (SCV) chapter of GOLD was asked to help plan a session at the Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC). We recognized this as a great opportunity for SCV GOLD and accepted the challenge. At the same time, our local chapter for Women in Engineering (WIE) was being re-established. […]

The 2013 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference was held at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan on August 26-29, 2013. The focus of this conference was “Lessons learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake disaster and its worldwide effects.” This conference was a very important event for humanitarian technology community in Region 10. Furthermore, […]

Greetings, and welcome to GOLD EMC news! At the 2013 IEEE EMC Symposium in Denver, GOLDies were very busy between the Ice Cream Social, the Ethics in Engineering sessions, and all the raffles. I was delighted to see the majority of the GOLD members who attended the symposium stop by the GOLD table to say […]

In July, the Tunisia GOLD AG of Region 8 was awarded a highly-coveted place in the IEEE MGA GOLD Hall of Fame for 2013. Congratulations to the Tunisia GOLD team for their remarkable work. This is the third time in a row that a GOLD AG from Region 8 has won this award. The Region […]

This year’s Eurocon conference saw around 400 IEEE members gather at the University of Zagreb in the capital of Croatia. Here, distinguished keynote speakers and numerous paper and poster sessions covered a variety of topics with a focus on the latest research. The Region 8 GOLD and Professional Activities (PA) committees teamed up to provide a special session […]

“Sorry, but it’s a rough economy right now, so don’t expect a significant pay raise.” Since I began work five years ago, I have heard a chorus of such remarks almost every year – as have many other graduates of the last decade I suppose. Only the root cause of this economic uncertainty has changed: first the dot-com bubble in early 2000, […]

Hello! My name is Caroline Chan, the GOLD EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) Society Representative, and I am proud to introduce Louann Devine who is another GOLD EMC member volunteering at the IEEE EMC Chicago Society. Louann Devine received her M.S. degree in electrical engineering with emphasis in electromagnetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago in […]

As those in Region 8 may already know, the Iberian Student Branch Congress 2013 (ISBC) took place earlier this year in Porto, Portugal, with great success! Congratulations to the organizing team on a job well done. Elena, member of the Region 8 GOLD Committee, had the pleasure of attending the ISBC, enjoying the event and […]